Since joining the Qosmos Expert Developers program, Argon Design has developed an example application on both Tilera iMesh™ and x86 processors to highlight potential uses of the Qosmos ixEngine and Argon Design's capabilities and expertise:
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X86 based qualmon - DPI Video Quality Monitor
"qualmon" is an example application to enable network providers to analyse the delivery and quality of video content being transmitted across their network, whilst it is being viewed. We have worked with Advantech to demonstrate this capability running in real time on their FWA-6510 Network Server - an Intel® enabled appliance.
Download our qualmon x86 flyer and qualmon x86 slideshow.
Why?
There has been an explosion of video traffic across both fixed and mobile networks. Customers are using video in many forms, consuming increasing levels of bandwidth; service providers need the ability to tune their networks effectively to ensure sufficient bandwidth. This will still be applicable as LTE services are rolled out.
To do this they need to identity the form of video in use and manage the use case, is it a videoconference, live broadcast or a clip being downloaded to view later? All this needs to be done fast enough to enable service providers to maximise the available bandwidth and avoid ruining the experience for their customers. It will also enable network operators to control the Policy Charging Enforcement Function, an essential part of next generation networks.
How?
Argon Design have taken the Qosmos ixEngine Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Network Intelligence Software Development Kit and developed an application to identify, extract and analyse video content in a network stream. The demo application has been prepared to review both the quality of service to the customer and measure the video’s “visual quality”:
Quality of Service/Experience
• recognise video streams,
• extract details of the streams from the container format,
• extract a representative thumbnail,
• recognise the player in use & replicate its buffering model,
• simulate the player &display the buffer margin as a time graph,
• predict video freeze when the player is starved of data.
Visual Quality
• decode the video,
• perform image processing to assess the visual quality and provide a numeric quality measure.
Hardware
Argon Design uses an Advantech FWA6500 as a video server that streams videos at different rates to simulate network constraints and as a Packet Generator streaming canned internet traffic. This is connected via a 10G link through an FWA-6510 network server to a WiFi hub to emulate the wireless network; users access the server and stream videos on their mobile devices, while Advantech's FWA-6510 Network Server performs DPI on the network stream in real time.
The Advantech server extracts and analyses the video streams, using Intel's next generation communication platform, to provide details and create an identifying thumbnail, whilst calculating how much viewing time is buffered in the player and performing image quality analysis. The results are then served to a web page for viewing on the browser and updated as appropriate.
For more information on Advantech's range of network platforms visit Advantech's x86-based Network Platforms.
So What?
The demo is an indicator of Argon Design’s extensive capabilities in Deep Packet Inspection, video encode/decode and complex video analysis on high performance network appliances from Advantech based on the latest x86 series processors. This can be readily extended to meet specific client requirements.
For video, we can capture and analyse multiple streams in a wide range of formats.
How can we help you?
iMesh based qualmon - DPI Video Quality Monitor
"qualmon" is an example application to enable network providers to analyse the delivery and quality of video content being transmitted across their network, whilst it is being viewed. This will allow policy management and enforcement, which will also be an essential strand of Long Term Evolution (LTE). We have worked with Tilera to demonstrate this capability running in real time on their TILEncorePro PCIe Card - a TILEPro64™ enabled card.
Download our qualmon flyer; and qualmon presentation.
Why?
There has been an explosion of video traffic across both fixed and mobile networks. Customers are using video in many forms, consuming increasing levels of bandwidth; service providers need the ability to tune their networks effectively to ensure sufficient bandwidth. This will still be applicable as LTE services are rolled out.
To do this they need to identity the form of video in use and manage the use case, is it a videoconference, live broadcast or a clip being downloaded to view later? All this needs to be done fast enough to enable service providers to maximise the available bandwidth and avoid ruining the experience for their customers. It will also enable network operators to control the Policy Charging Enforcement Function, an essential part of next generation networks.
How?
Argon Design have taken the Qosmos ixEngine Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Network Intelligence Software Development Kit and developed an application to identify, extract and analyse video content in a network stream. The demo application has been prepared to review both the quality of service to the customer and measure the video’s “visual quality”:
Quality of Service/Experience
• recognise video streams,
• extract details of the streams from the container format,
• extract a representative thumbnail,
• recognise the player in use & replicate its buffering model,
• simulate the player &display the buffer margin as a time graph,
• predict video freeze when the player is starved of data.
Visual Quality
• decode the video,
• perform image processing to assess the visual quality and provide a numeric quality measure.
Hardware
For the qualmon demo, Argon Design uses a PC to act as a video server that streams videos at different rates to simulate network constraints. The PC is connected to a WiFi hub to emulate the wireless network; users access the server and stream videos on their mobile devices, while a manycore Tilera TILEncorePro PCIe card (link) is used to perform DPI on the network stream.
The TILEncorePro PCIe Card extracts and analyses the video streams, using a TILEPro64 manycore processor, to provide details and create an identifying thumbnail, whilst calculating how much viewing time is buffered in the player and performing image quality analysis. The results are then served to a web page for viewing on the browser and updated as appropriate.
So What?
The demo is an indicator of Argon Design’s extensive capabilities in Deep Packet Inspection, video encode/decode and complex video analysis on manycore platforms. This can be readily extended to meet specific client requirements.
For video, we can capture and analyse multiple streams in a wide range of formats.
How can we help you?